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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by seats on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:06PM (#2671531)
When the market is really big, then only the really rich people can manipulate it. Comforting thought ;)
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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by wmf on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:17PM (#2671579)
It's already a little disturbing to realize that a single account held 261K BTC out of 6.5M BTC in circulation.
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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by seats on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:25PM (#2671604)
I wonder how the distribution of bitcoins compares to that of dollars
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Re:500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash by Synaesthesia on Sunday June 19, 2011 @03:28PM (#2671610)
I think that someone actually kept that 250k BTC in their MTGox account!
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